Re: [Sheflug] sound file restoration

[Peter Collier <pecb [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 20 November 2003 09:33, Seb James wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 09:26, Chris Johnson wrote:
> > My mother-in-law has some old audio tapes she would like the tape hiss
> > removing from and then putting on CD.  Has anyone done this with Linux
> > before?
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> Chris, I recorded a couple of tapes that I had onto my harddrive - I've
> not bothered to record them to cd yet. I can't actually remember which
> program I used to do the recording but I plugged my walkman into the
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> Seb.

Starting with the hardware side. Does your tape player have dolby. If not can 
you get hold of a grahic equaliser and play through that to your computer. On 
the software side, I remember a program called gramophone, this could record 
tracks off an record ( I would think it would do the same from a tape 
machine) and I'm not sure but I think it had a filtering provision for 
surface noises. A very basic way could be to use a graphic equaliser such as 
comes with xmms and filter out some frequences which have the hiss. Not a 
100% professinal way of doing it but depending on how good your 
mother-in-laws hearing is, it may just do the trick.

Peter  

> > Chris Johnson
> > (No not that one, the other one!)
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